LATIN AMERICA: Mexican Holiday

In the precise rectangular criss-cross of streets that is Mexico City
popped myriads of firecrackers, detonated cannon crackers as bulkily
potent as an elephant's wrist. From the oozy slums half sliming into
Lake Texcoco rose a clatter of revelry that carried even to
aristocratic patios of the Colonia Juarez. Mexico's 115th Independence Day
(Sept. 16) had arrived with the dealth-dealing rejoicings that marked
an early Rooseveltian U.S. Fourth of July.

In the course of a week's celebration "homage was paid to cadets
killed during the American occupancy...